Comment by KronisLV

This is a very interesting group of takes that feels quite different from my own beliefs. What would you call the belief system?

> Global warming: yes, kinda can wipe humanity, but I think much less likely

As someone who's seen the stats about heat deaths in the EU and also the drought in the UK, I feel like crop failures and other unforeseen consequences will fuck up both the economy and quality of life. People are dying and will die cause of human action, the only question is how many.

> Nukes: zero possibility of extinction

As long as we have people like Stanislav Petrov and cooler, educated minds prevail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

I don't think that's easy to guarantee in the modern day world, with the kinds of people in power and rhetoric that they enjoy. On one hand you have Russian saber rattling, on the other all it takes is a deranged enough leader and similarly bloodthirsty people down the chain of command.

> Wealth inequality: this one is driver of progress, opposite of extinction

Tell that to the people who are starving or living in shanty towns, or the even more people that struggle to make ends meet and experience anxiety regularly over living from salary to salary and sinking into debt. I'd say none of that is worthy of a dignified human life.

> War: another driver of progress, also will always naturally stop before every single human is dead

Tell that to all of the Ukrainians that are dead due to being invaded. I agree with the assessment that it leads to advancements (e.g. drone warfare) but I think it'd be harder to describe remotely positively if someone you know would have been blown apart by a drone/missile hitting their apartment block.

My take personally would be that all of those need to have attention paid to them (e.g. EU needing to spend more on defense), even if not immediately world ending. They do cause human misery, though, and should never be discounted.